![]() ![]() They’d been invited to open for local rockers Speed Control. When Warrmauth played its first show with all five members at Epic Pizza last year, the band had to figure out how to eat without taking their masks off, Pumphrey said. “If you’re going to see a show, there has to be something to see, it has to be an experience,” Hopkins added.Įlectric percussionist Isaac Pumphrey, who joined the band last year with guitarist Milan Lapres, said they don’t let anyone see them without their masks on the day of a show. He also draws inspiration from the glam metal band Motley Crue, who made it big combining elements of punk rock and pop music with the aesthetic of 1970s glam rock. I like to consider myself confident in real life but definitely not as much as when I’m on stage.” “When you have the mask on, people see you as someone who is larger than life. ![]() “You don’t get to be that awkward kid you normally are in real life,” he said. Hopkins, who also wears bunny ears and striped pants as part of his costume on stage, said the mask and adopted persona turn him into a completely different person – a superhero. Slipknot, an American heavy metal band whose members have been accused in the past of wearing masks as a gimmick to sell more albums, have always insisted the masks are used to draw attention away from themselves and to the music. Warrmauth puts a heavy emphasis on its live performances, wearing demonic masks inspired by bands such as Slipknot and GWAR. There are a surprising number of metalheads in Whitehorse.” “Maybe some of the older bands will see us play live and decide to re-form. “There used to be a half-decent metal scene here,” said lead singer and guitarist Manus Hopkins, who grew up listening to bands such as Judas Priest and Motley Crue. The band recently finished third in the battle of the bands competition at the Future Routes Festival held at Yukon College, meaning they get to perform on the youth stage at next summer’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival. Now Warrmauth, a five-member act made up of 15- and 16-year-olds, wants to create a heavy metal revival in Whitehorse. As recently as 2011, there were enough of them to organize an all-ages show called Heavy Metal Halloween.īut most of those bands have since moved away or split up. The heavy metal landscape in Whitehorse was once dotted with dozens of bands with names like Nemesis, Sanctuary and Bushwhacker.
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